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LÄÄ05MS22HKI-(SH) Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in child and adolescent work (1 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0501A20S-3009

General information


Enrollment

01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022

Timing

12.09.2022 - 14.10.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care

Teachers

  • Elina Pettinen
  • Sabina Hentilä
  • Pirkko Natri

Groups

  • A50sh-lh
    A50sh-lh
  • A49sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of patient safety in pharmacotherapy within child and adolescent nursing
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common child and adolescent diseases and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-supervision to children and adolescents and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics